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Wahoo! All but the latest season of The Simpsons, which is airing on TVNZ 2, can be streamed from today in NZ on Disney+. The competitively priced service, with 4K/Dolby Atmos streams costing nothing more than HD, launched today with more than 600 movies and 7,000 TV series episodes. Most new episodes of the platform’s […]

Despite TVNZ 2’s network movie premiere of Kingsman: The Golden Circle blowing away the competition on Sunday, TVNZ 1 still won the night in three of the four core commercial demograhics. The spy romp sequel averaged 4.5% of 25-54 year-olds, 3.9% of 18-49s, 3.0% of 18-39s and 4.2% of household shoppers with kids to win […]

➢➢ Wahoo! TVNZ 2 will refresh its primetime slate in the first week of November with the season 31 premiere of The Simpsons (6.30 Sunday) — as the lead-in to S2 of The Great Kiwi Bake Off — and another run of hour-long episodes of Shortland Street (TVNZ 2, 7.00 Mondays), ahead of the return of Australian Survivor (8.00). Australian Survivor also […]

TVNZ 2 is revising its Friday night schedule to improve its prospects against Three’s top-rating light-ent line-up. It’s pre-empting this week’s episode of The Simpsons so Best Foods Comedy Gala can start earlier at 7.30. This will provide it a stronger lead-in from Shortland Street and give it a head-start on Three’s The Graham Norton […]

TVNZ 2 will fast-track the final episode of The Big Bang Theory so it screens here within hours of the US. The hour-long series finale will air in The Simpsons’ 7.30 Friday slot, on May 17. Here’s the TVNZ Sales press release: TVNZ 2 to air the final ever episode of The Big Bang Theory […]

➢➢ TVNZ 2 will lock in one of its strongest new-season schedules in years with the premiere of quirky Kiwi drama Fresh Eggs on February 19. If the skilfully cut promos are an indication, this could be a breakthrough for the moribund genre. Billed as “a black comedy series with a deliciously twisted sense of […]

Shockingly low ratings for TVNZ 2’s first Friday night broadcast of FIH Pro League Hockey have prompted TVNZ to switch the rest of the competition to Duke. This week’s coverage will screen from 5.00 on Duke, pushing back the movie Hudson Hawk to 8.45 and South Park to 10.45. TVNZ 2, meanwhile, will replace the […]

TVNZ 2 is dropping re-runs of The Simpsons and the latest season of Little Big Shots for Friday night movies. This follows two weeks of low ratings for Little Big Shots in its new 8.00 Friday slot. The latest revamp of the network’s light-ent line-up will take effect from September 28, when the movie Wild […]

➢➢ TVNZ continues to put many of its best shows online instead of on-air. Coming soon to TVNZ OnDemand are: Deep Water: The Real Story, which explores the truth behind the violent gay-bashing epidemic that tarnished Sydney in the ’80s and ’90s (from September 15); The Last Animals, which exposes the killing of African elephants and […]

Disenchantment | Netflix, from Friday ➢➢ “Disenchantment, Simpsons creator Matt Groening’s new animated fantasy parody for Netflix, uses the same art style that’s been the cartoonist’s trademark his entire career. Sweet, hapless Elfo (Nat Faxon) doesn’t look too far removed from Lisa and Maggie’s beloved Happy Little Elves; an obnoxious prince gets transformed into a […]